What would you do if the store you have been shopping at all your life treats you like a criminal? I ask the man in the meat department for a particular meat he has no idea what i'm talking about. From that day he just started following me. The managers follow my mom at every store she goes to. She shops at all the stores. I spend so much money on groceries 200-250 a month. How can we change this? I have worked at sears and I know that the security department would call down and tell us to follow certain ones. I refused to do it so I got this other girl to do it. The lady I was supposed to watch came up to me and asked why that girl was following her. They used to even follow and suspect their own employees. How can I stop this? If you ask them if they are following you they try and act stupid and say that they weren't. I mean I don't even carry a purse I care my card in my jacket or jeans pocket. Just so there is no room for suspicion of me going in to my pocketbook with something.
2007-03-19 14:11:00 · 5 answers · asked by Ebony 2 in Society & Culture ➔ Etiquette
This sounds very odd indeed.
Confront who ever is following you "hello again, why are you creeping around after me??, did you lose something?, may I help you? what's the matter with you?, stop following me, you are being creepy". Then leave.
You don't need this.
2007-03-21 08:28:56 · answer #1 · answered by Pacifica 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Get it on video tape a few times. Every time you enter the store have someone videotape you (show date and time on screen). Have a planned route to follow (and follow it every time) so the person filming can get into same positions every time. If the same person follows you on a regular basis and uses the same method, this would be good on tape. Once you have conclusive evidence, makes copies and send to the corporate store and ask why the criminal treatment? Then show the manager. Have cajones and play hardball with them. Threaten to go public and cause a local media frenzy, and possibly a discrimination law suite. Aside from having fun, you’ll probably be offered some type of compensation to avoid the bad publicity. Take them up on it and enjoy the freebee. Don’t bail to early on the offer. Stick it to them so they don’t do it a second time to someone else.
When sales and bad publicity are involved, most companies make the wrong things right again. If the consumer doesn’t stand up, who else will?
2007-03-20 16:55:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask to speak with the manager. Tell him or her that you have been a long time patron and will no longer patronize the store if this continues, even though it would be less convinient for you to do so. Be sure to not be upset while voicing your lack of appreciation of this matter to them.
2007-03-19 23:03:38 · answer #3 · answered by ashton 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
well, if they don't appriciate your business, then shop somewhere else.
Additionally, I think you should write a letter to the highest possilbe position in the company. If it's a big corporation, then write to the customer service dept. at their headquaters, otherwise write the owner of the store and CC all store managers. And make sure you make it clear that you intend to take your business elsewhere.
2007-03-19 21:33:47 · answer #4 · answered by Tiff 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
go to another store.
2007-03-19 21:14:35 · answer #5 · answered by patriot07 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋